To a Certain Extent.
; ' -Says the- Adelaide. Licensed Victual- ;: vlers' Gazette; : — '1-he essence of snobbery istQibelmet with> m South Australia. -It' is landable ambition amongst the j : i humble Irieh to-bring, lip. one of the family to be a 4 .', gentleman.' 7 The idea ' may help the rest np the. gladder "of life. To forward this Joseph th 6 resVof the family are pinched I - m education-— sometimes m food. The -Macnamarat thus ; pushed their eldest '•son. ; Be wasshrewd^-obtained a bank j • >• appointment, and m. a few years ; became a manager. Heneve/iTemembered^the' old folks -who had well-nigh starved iCi themselves for ljis^ke.^ A townsman, entering his bank?/ 'looked earnestly at him and* said, "Is your name M^cnamaras?' 7it 'lfc isV' : was the reply. ♦ f Why do you ask V ll Are you then a oM Fat Maenamara?" "Well," B&xd the manager with obvious reluctance, *' I ahi^to a certain extent."
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Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 107, 13 April 1883, Page 3
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149To a Certain Extent. Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 107, 13 April 1883, Page 3
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